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The Impact Of Nonmarket Work On Market Wages, Joni Hersch
The Impact Of Nonmarket Work On Market Wages, Joni Hersch
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
The purpose of this paper is to examine the direct effect on market productivity of the dual responsibilities of market and nonmarket work.
Male-Female Differences In Hourly Wages: The Role Of Human Capital, Working Conditions, And Housework, Joni Hersch
Male-Female Differences In Hourly Wages: The Role Of Human Capital, Working Conditions, And Housework, Joni Hersch
Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications
This study uses a new data set from a 1986 survey of workers to examine simultaneously the wage effects of human capital, household responsibilities, working conditions, and on-the-job training. The analysis suggests that household responsibilities had a negative effect on women's earnings, but the unexplained difference between the earnings of men and women is not greatly reduced by inclusion in the explanatory model of information on either housework or working conditions. The presence of children appears to have had a positive effect on the wages of both men and women.